We are looking to interview people with COPD to gain insight into what it feels like to live with breathlessness. The interview can be done online or in-person. It will focus on your experience and feeling around breathlessness and your experience of living with COPD. This will help improve our knowledge and help shape future treatments for COPD.

We have 3-4 meetings per year, lasting 1-2 hours each. These meetings can be completed in-person or virtually, to fit in around your existing commitments/schedule. The purpose of the meetings is to:

• Discuss our wider research strategy, upcoming opportunities, individual studies based on current patient interests/priorities
• Review proposed individual study methodology and wider dissemination strategy
• Provide feedback/letter of support for upcoming grant applications and press releases

We are inviting Nottingham residents to take part in Code-RED, a project exploring how digital technologies shape everyday life. Join a series of interactive workshops between May and June to share your experiences, discuss digital research with university researchers, and help shape future research priorities. No technical background is needed. Participants will be compensated and travel costs supported.

Team VOICE, funded through an NIHR Team Science Award, are looking for a diverse group of 6-8 patients and members of the public to join our Project Advisory Panel and provide valuable insights and guidance into our project development.
We are looking at risk prediction tools in healthcare and how these can be less accurate for people from disadvantaged or minority groups. Your insights can help us make these tools fairer for everyone.

We are a research team interested in developing new ways to involve patients in defining which treatments work best in trials.

We invite you to participate in our study. It will involve attending up to 3 meetings. Each meeting will last around 2 hours and will occur over the months May – August.

Please express your interest to pinpoint@abdn.ac.uk before 30th of April 2026.

We are looking for a member of the public with lived experience to review a proposal looking at the best way to perform Whipple procedures. The review is completed through our online system and will involve reading a paper focusing on the Plain English summary and PPI sections. It would be available to review from 14 May and the review would ideally be completed within 2 weeks. If you are interested please send details of your experience.

We are currently designing a study titled “User Experiences of Using a Self-Tracking Health Mobile App.” The study includes an online survey, try a mobile app, a follow-up survey, and an interview. As a reviewer, you will examine the full process over one week and provide feedback on participant experience, including areas where additional support may be needed, as well as suggestions to improve the clarity of study materials.

We invite patients, ideally with experience of urgent major abdominal surgery (also called emergency laparotomy or major emergency general surgery), to a 1-hour online MS Teams event on the 18th May. We seek your views on the use of individual patient data within secure digital tools to support clinicians with learning and improvement across this important emergency surgical pathway. Register your interest here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/N0bsGFDHix .

We are now recruiting an extensive network of people from the following groups to make this happen:
Employer representatives including senior leadership, line managers, HR, OH professionals, trade union representatives from across the UK, from different industry sectors and from organisations of different sizes.
Workers with lived or living experience of either successfully or unsuccessfully working with health challenges from different industry sectors and from organisations of different

We would like to understand the experiences, care issues and unmet needs of people who live alone with cancer. These could be at any point in the cancer journey, during diagnosis, treatment, medication, or living with and beyond cancer. We would like to discuss what changes and support people think they need to help address some of these problems they have faced. We welcome people from all different backgrounds and cultures. The flyer provides more information.